MUMBAI: Piyush Jha‘s latest directorial venture Sikandar is set to be screened at the 7th Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on 22 April. The festival will commence on 21 April and run till 26 April.
A co-production between Big Pictures, the motion pictures brand from Reliance Big Entertainment and Sudhir Mishra‘s CineRaas, Sikandar is a suspense thriller centering around an adolescent whose life changes drastically when he comes across a gun.
The six-day festival will open with Anand Surapur‘s The Fakir of Venice. The film is about two Indian con men who venture to Venice and find themselves in a strange land where their culture is commodified and exploited for artistic, political and spiritual purposes.
IFFLA will close with Megan Doneman‘s Yes Madam, Sir, a documentary profiling Dr Kiran Bedi, the first woman to join the Indian Police Service and a controversial and inspiring figure in India.
The other highlights of the event include Nandita Das‘s directorial debut Firaaq, Deepa Mehta‘s Heaven on Earth, Sooni Taraporevala‘s Little Zizou and Nina Paley‘s animated film Sita Sings the Blues.
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